[Infrastructure] Rose kissed Barcelona

The rose bushes on the balcony swayed in the wind and hummed lazily.A tender petal flew up with the wind, whirled into the window, and was caught by a slender and dexterous hand.

Antonio retracted his hands behind his back and leaned over: "This is the force analysis of the fixed support? Have you really studied architecture?"

He stood behind Joey, his head casting a small overlapping shadow on the paper.

Joey felt that his brain was like a CPU that was about to be burned due to excessive memory load, and he didn't want to talk to him at all: "You're blocking my light."

The shadow of the head turned to the side, and there was a bit of surprise in his tone: "Why is this formula used for calculation here?"

"..." Actually, Joey didn't know either.

She is not a mathematician, who would deduce all the formulas in a book?

But she knew it was due because she stood on the shoulders of giants.

"This is the moment of inertia?...This is the moment of resistance. Oh, the limit state is used here to calculate...Your unit load is wrong."

Joey stopped writing in shock.Damn it.

Did she hear it right?

Stress and deformation analysis is obviously something that was only proposed in the 20th century.Don't tell her that this guy already understood the calculation principle after he stood behind her and watched her draw a few pictures and write a few pages of formulas.

But before she could turn her head to ask questions, she felt a warmth covering her back.

An arm with half-rolled sleeves stretched out from her left shoulder, propped up naturally on the table.With the other hand, he picked up the pen in the upper right corner of the table and dipped it into the ink bottle.

The slender hand holds the cold metallic pen, and draws casually on the draft paper, "The point of stress should be here, here, and here. This place is missing."

The tip of the pen tapped a dot on the paper, leaving an ink stain.

The warm breath fluttered gently on the top of his head.Through the black hair that hangs down to the waist, the soft fabric feels gently brushed in the air, revealing the warmth of the chest faintly.

She even heard a faint heartbeat.Even and steady.

Time froze for a long while.

Then Joey found his voice.

——That was the anger almost squeezed out from between the teeth.

"...Can I understand that, in fact, you can obviously draw a structural force diagram by yourself and prove it to those experts?"

A chuckle came from above my head: "I'm too lazy to draw for them to see. And I often change the design temporarily during the construction process, and most of the overall calculations made in advance are not used. Usually rely on feeling."

Joey: "..."

That's not it.Lazy or you are lazy, so lazy that you lost your job at the beginning!

She took a deep breath to calm her beating heart.

Then he put down the pen and stood up aggressively.

A certain scammer who is afraid of chaos in the world is very clever at this time.He took a quick step back to avoid the girl's head from hitting his chin with a "bang".

"You..." Joey suddenly realized that he was shorter than him.How can this be tolerated?

She rolled her eyes, gritted her teeth and stepped on the footstool beside her.

"Antonio, please clarify the situation."

Joey was condescending and relieved, "You - because of your own fault, lost your job. And I - your Lord Party A, is working hard to restore your reputation and livelihood. Should you reflect sincerely? Yes Shouldn't you show your sincerity?"

The moment she stood on the footstool, the boy subconsciously raised his arms, as if he was standing under the eaves that day, opening his arms to catch her.

He looked up at her, his light blue eyes were full of sunshine, as clear as the blue ice fields of Reykjavik.

"Dear Your Highness Rose," he raised an eyebrow slightly, with a half-smile, "What kind of sincerity do you want?"

pounding.

Joey heard his own heartbeat.

Because she heard that life-threatening address again.It was as if Satan were calling to the head on her shoulders.

"...I said, don't call me Your Highness Rose anymore. Just kidding!"

"As ordered."

"First of all, finish writing this report. I have already written out the proof paths, and you can calculate them all." She hated calculations the most.In the era without calculators and computers, is this a place where people live?

"No problem." The young man followed suit.

Joey stared suspiciously into his blue eyes. "No delay! No scribbling! I'll have it in a week. Don't try to fool the old guys at City Hall!"

They may not be as talented as Antonio, but they have one thing to say.Architecture does require experience, and they are all old fritters.

The boy blinked and replied, "Okay."

Joey breathed a sigh of relief.Pit goods at least have some brains.

This time she had to pay close attention, lest he secretly make any code words to ridicule the city hall expert team in this report, just like lest his own coffin was not closed tightly.

Good guy, it's so real that Party A is not in a hurry and Party B is in a hurry.

At this moment, she felt a heat on her shoulder, as if a drop of warm liquid had dripped on it.

Joey lowered his head and saw a dark red bleed on the pearly white lace.

She looked up subconsciously.

Just above, on the curtained rail, was the bloody carcass of a robin.The eyes and the hole that had been dug into two black holes were condescending, staring straight at her.

Blood dripped slowly from the bird's corpse with messy feathers, and merged into a scarlet drop at the tip of the bird's claw, dripping slowly.

Tick.

Joey passed out without even screaming.

The last fragment in memory is that she fell into a warm and strong embrace.

Just panicked.

……

"So you're afraid of birds? It's really rare." Antonio gloated.

Joey: "...No, I'm just dizzy."

Antonio asked in amazement, "Blood? Are you dizzy with color, smell, or touch? It shouldn't be smell and touch... But if you are dizzy with color, why don't you get dizzy when you see roses?"

Joey: "..." No one will think you are dumb if you don't speak.

Ada went to check it later, and it was just a robin carcass, and there was nothing else dangerous.

She comforts Joey that the robin may have lost his way in the city and killed himself in despair.What a poor little bird!

Joey: "..." Sorry, I can't empathize with that horrible thing.

Ada thought it was just a dead bird, not worth making a fuss about.But Joey has new worries.

Only then did she realize that the safety of the single-family villas on the street was really worrying.Low fence walls, old gates with keyholes, and windows that anyone could get in--almost everywhere.

To make matters worse, Pascal and Schoon hadn't returned from Madrid yet.She didn't want to spend too much money on other servants, and it was just her and Ada at home.Whenever Ada went out to buy groceries, she was alone at home.

So, after thinking about it, she decided to ask Antonio if he would like to live in her house.

"Idle is idle." The boy shrugged indifferently.

It's spring break, and he's now disqualified as an architect from presiding over the roof remodel of the Earl's House.It doesn't matter where you live.

In this way, Antonio lived in a room on the second floor, and Joey also left him a studio next to his study.

Originally, she considered sharing a big study with the two of them.But after seeing Antonio's talent for messing things up, which seemed to outshine his architectural talent, she cut his losses and drove him into another room.

Soon, Joey found that Ada seemed to be shopping slower and slower, and she bought in the morning, in the afternoon, and in the evening.

In fact, as long as her job is done well, she never asks about Ada's private life.She was just a little curious, is grocery shopping so fun?

The days that followed were uneventful, as if the robin carcass that day was a complete accident.But Joey just felt uneasy in his heart.

In fact, on the day when Count Guell called her to fight the fire, she had some strange feelings in her heart.

In the streets and alleys of Barcelona, ​​so many houses are being remodeled, why is the roof designed by Antonio being complained to the city hall?

Of course, objectively speaking, his design is indeed the most eye-catching.But a mere roof, no matter how famous it is, is not a social drama of homicide ethics that people like to talk about after dinner.

Such a trivial matter is widely circulated among the radish-headed brats, and it has to be suspicious.

Joey learned from the pain and felt that he might have acted too hastily.Antonio was invited by the earl to do the roof project when he was only 20 years old. I am afraid he touched other people's cheese.

As for whose cheese...seems self-explanatory.

Antonio is like this, so why is she not like this.

The sales of the paper clips were as she expected, and they sold out in Barcelona as soon as they were launched.

In the beginning, major companies and studios were skeptical about this oddly shaped gadget, but they couldn’t stand Joseph’s indiscriminate bombardment, which was half enthusiastic and half intimidating. In addition, this gadget was indeed much cheaper than iron clips. The main stationery stores and shopping malls in the city have basically agreed to purchase.

The first corporate support staff and writers who went shopping soon learned the magic of this gadget.

Elegant shape design, convenient use method, and most importantly, low price, let them spread to ten or ten, and the first batch of goods on the shelves were sold out within a few days.

People are almost rushing to tell each other: This little thing that seems to have no gold content is so easy to use!

Its name is "hui" needle - according to the store's introduction, this is because the designer, Ms. Fernandez, is very obsessed with Chinese culture, and the shape of the circle of paper clips is very similar to the Chinese character "hui", so this word is specially used to name.

They don't know. In fact, the more important reason is that Miss Designer doesn't know what its original name is in Spanish.

But Joey doesn't care about that anymore.

She was jubilantly counting her income and expenses.The investment of 500 million has brought back 1000 million in revenue one month after the establishment of the factory, that is, just one week after the paper clips were put on the market.

She acted decisively and immediately used the money she earned to expand the production line, quadrupling its capacity.The money invested in research and development before has also had an immediate effect-the semi-automated production line is several times faster than the purely manual production line.

While developing the production line step by step, the safety certification report for the roof design of the city hall was submitted on time.Joey carefully checked it several times to ensure that Antonio did not bring any private goods inside.

Everything is developing in a good direction.

According to this trend, after a while, she can safely consider buying Montjuïc.

She never forgot to pay attention to this piece of land.Before, I was too shy to take too many risks, but if I have enough surplus food, I can let go and make bolder investments.

Risk and profit are often symbiotic coexistence.

Time flies by with the intoxicating clatter of money.Two weeks passed quickly.

On June 6, the town hall will make its final ruling on the roof design of Earl's House.

Ada went out early to buy groceries.After nine o'clock, Antonio went to the gate of the city hall to see the results.Joey wanted to go too, but was held back by something in the factory and had to stay at home.

The busy business was dealt with until noon, and she estimated that they should be back soon.So, she temporarily put aside the matter at hand, and prepared to go around the garden and wait for the result by the way.

"Squeaky——" opened the heavy wooden door, and the bright clear sky was outside.The roses beside the wooden fence seem to be full of sunshine, and each one is a burning color.

"Miss!" Ada's breathless voice came from the end of the street on the right, wrapped around the wind, "Miss, they are really deceiving people!"

Joey's heart skipped a beat.

Ada yelled as she dragged her skirt and ran, "Miss, you clearly gave them a certificate, but the city hall still ruled that they did not meet the safety standards. They must either tear it down or add a pillar!"

At the same time, a figure in a white shirt appeared diagonally in front of the corner.

"Joy," Antonio looked at her through the fence and rose bushes, his eyes suddenly widened in astonishment, "don't look back."

Ah this.

The body precedes the brain, and Joey subconsciously turned his head back.

What caught the eye was a large expanse of blood red.Blood was splashed all over the wooden door, and even the beige wall was splashed a lot.It was as if someone's head had been chopped off here, and blood was splattered everywhere.

The blood stained a giant arrow on the wall, pointing to the ledge.

There lay the disembodied corpse of a rat.

The intestines flowed out, the eyeballs were cut into black holes, and the messy hair was full of coagulated black and red blood clots.Flies buzzed.